“Beat Plastic Pollution”, the theme for World Environment 2018, urges governments, industry, communities, and individuals to come together and explore sustainable alternatives and urgently reduce the production and excessive use of single-use plastic polluting our oceans, damaging marine life and threatening human health.
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Humans have produced 18.2 trillion pounds of plastics since large-scale production began in the early 1950s, and nearly 80% now resides in landfills like the one seen here, or the natural environment, according to a study published July 19, 2017.
Plastic bags sits in a Manhattan trash can on May 05, 2016 in New York City.
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